“As we all know, things never go as planned. We spend so much of our young lives trying not to get pregnant only to wish for that very same thing once you are ready. Year after year past, more and more friends and family members announced their pregnancies. I put on my happy face as I hugged and congratulated them, all while my heart felt like it was being torn to shreds. Everyone kept saying “once you stop trying is when you’ll get pregnant”. But how could I ever stop trying? It’s all I’ve ever wanted? Even when I would announce that we weren’t trying, still in the back of my head, it was all I could think about.”